Alex Harris · 242 pages
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“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility,” we had told the columnist. “They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“What is possible when a generation stops assuming that someone else will take care of the brokenness in the world - or that someone else will capitalize on current opportunities - and realizes that they are called to take action?”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity” (NIV).”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“It all boils down to a principle at the heart of Christian character: we have to care more about pleasing God than we care about pleasing man.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“It’s about an idea. It’s about rebelling against low expectations. It’s about a movement that is changing the attitudes and actions of teens around the world. And we want you to be part of it.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Our uprising is against a cultural mind-set that twists the purpose and potential of the teen years and threatens to cripple our generation. Our uprising won’t be marked by mass riots and violence, but by millions of individual teens quietly choosing to turn the low expectations of our culture upside down.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“For all of us, expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“God calls us to be examples. Where our culture might expect little, God expects great things.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Jesus said that it doesn’t matter if you have the admiration of the world if you lose your soul,”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“the modern concept of adolescence is not a biological stage, but a cultural mind-set. It doesn’t stop when you graduate from high school, or when you turn twenty-one.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Do Hard Things will help recruit, develop, and deploy a new generation of young culture warriors.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Working on the campaigns taught us that never trying is a lot worse than losing.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“the three pillars of the Rebelution: character, competence, and collaboration”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“And it’s not just in America. Countries around the world have developed names for young “adults”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“Isn’t that exactly what has happened? Entire industries—movie, music, fashion, fast food—and countless online services revolve around the consumer habits of, you guessed it, teens. With all this money and attention focused on teens, the teen years are viewed as some sort of vacation.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
“We’re passionate about these causes because God has placed them on our hearts.”
― Alex Harris, quote from Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris
Born place: in Portland, OR, The United States
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“Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.”
― Kevin Brooks, quote from Martyn Pig
“I admit, I bear my share of the responsibility for their getting it all wrong, so I guess I’m just going to tell this story as if you knew nothing, because, in reality, even if you read every single article published up to the moment of the big announcement, about the truth, you do know nothing.”
― David Clawson, quote from My Fairy Godmother Is a Drag Queen
“I had started running in order to escape Rose Lincoln and her pack. Then I was running to put things decidedly being me, to seek lovely new emptinesses. Then I ran to outpace the nagging of my ticklish brain. Then I just ran.”
― Joshua Gaylord, quote from When We Were Animals
“Do they have target priority protocols?” I asked. “Would they be able to differentiate between a high- and low-priority target?”
Rogan’s face shut down. “No.”
“No, they don’t?” I clarified.
“No, I won’t let you do this.”
We stared at each other. The tension in the room was so thick, you could slice it with a knife and serve it with tea.
Leon whistled a melody from a gunfighter Western.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Wildfire
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